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Joseph Marceau was transported on the Buffalo, departing 28th Sep 1839 and arriving 12th Feb 1840 with 90 passengers.
1833 - Voyage. Transported; 179 Female Convicts and 25 Children 1839 - Voyage. On 28th September 1839, the Ship Buffalo left Quebec, Canada, taking 144 prisoners to Van Diemen’s Land and New South Wales, following the Patriot War in Canada in 1837-38. Some of the prisoners were French Canadians patriots and others were American patriots, captured after the Battle of the Windmill. The Ship went first to Van Diemens Land, arriving at Hobart on 11th February 1840, where most of the American prisoners were landed, and then went on to Sydney, arriving on 26th February 1840, where the 58 French speaking prisoners were landed. They were separated mainly because there was hostility between the Americans from Lower Canada and the Canadians from Upper Canada. The prisoners were in the main, literate, idealistic and honest men.
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I am a descendant of Joseph Marceau and I was born on his birthday 24th January
Jacques Marceau was born at L'Acadie, Quebec on January 24, 1806, and was transported after the insurrection of 1837-38 in Quebec, Canada. Jacques Marceau, was a farmer at Napierville. He married Emilie Piedalue on October 5, 1830 at L'Acadie, their first child,named Emilie, was born on September 21, 1834. Then, Zephirin, born at Napierville on May 1, 1836, and Odilon, born at L'Acadie March 21, 1838 and Honore. On May 23, 1839, Emilie Piedalue-Marceau died while her husband was in prison, and 4 months after her death Joseph Marceau and 57 other Patriots went into exile. Joseph arrived on the Buffalo, the men from Upper Canada disembarked in Hobart and the ones from Lower Canada went on the Port Jackson. They spent 20 months at Longbottom, engaged in stone breaking and dragging it to Parramatta Road, which was then under construction. They were also engaged in cutting wood blocks for paving the streets of Sydney. In 1842 the prisoners were allowed to leave Longbottom to try and gain employment on the ticket-of-leave system. In 1844 all the prisoners, including the Americans in Van Diemen’s Land, received full pardons. Two of the French Canadians, Joson Dumouchel and Ignase Chevrefils, had died soon after their arrival in NSW. Only one, Joseph Marceau, married a colonial girl, Mary Barrett, by whom he had 11 children. 9/10/1844: Married Mary Catherine Barrett, daughter of John Barrett, convict per Guildford 1827, and Ellen Barrett, convict per Harmony 1827. In 1850 Joseph received land, and was a farmer at West Dapto. 8/6/1883: Joseph died and was buried at the West Dapto Catholic Cemetery, with Mary and her parents.